TOPNOTCH EDUCATIONAL

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Practice Questions on Fractions, Decimals, Approximations and
Percentages
1. Tade bought 200 mangoes at 4 for N2.50. 30 out of the mangoes got spoilt
and the remaining were sold at 2 for N2.40. Find the percentage profit or
loss.
2. The value of x + x (xx) when x=2 is?
3. ( 1.28 ×10 4 ) ÷ ( 6.4 ×10 2) equals? Express the result in standard form
4. After getting a rise of 15%, a man's new monthly salary is N345. How much
per month did he earn before the increase?
5. The annul profits of a transport business were divided between the partners
A and B in the ratio 3 : 5. If B received N3000 more than A, the total profit
was?
6. A trader goes to Ghana for y days with y cedis. For the first x days, he
spends X cedis per day. The amount he has to spend per day for the rest of
his stay is?
2 4
÷
3 5
7. Simplify 1 3 1
+ −
4 5 3
8. The simple interest on N 8550 for 3 years at x% per annum is N4890.
Calculate the value of x to the nearest whole number.
3
(0.5436)
9. Find the value of to 3 significant figures
0.017 ×0.219
10.The weight of a day-old chick was measured to be 0.21g. If the actual
weight of the chick is 0.18g, what was the percentage error in the
measurement?

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11.Evaluate ÷ correct to 1 decimal place
0.32 0.084
12.A man bought a car newly for N 1,250,000. He had a crash with the car and
later sold it at the rate of N 1,085,000. What is the percentage gain or loss of
the man?
13.Express ( 0.0439 ÷ 3.62 ) as a fraction

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14.A bricklayer charges N 1,500 per day for himself and N 500 per day for his
assistant. If a two-bedroom flat was built for N 95,000 and the bricklayer
worked 10 days more than his assistant, how much did the assistant receive?
15.A factory worker earns N 50,000 per month out of which he spends 15% on
his children's education, N 13,600 on Food, 3% on electricity and uses the
rest for his personal purpose. How much does he have left?
16.Approximate 0.9875 to 1 decimal place
1 −2
17.Simplify 25 2 ×8 3 leaving your answer in the simplest fractional form
18.Convert 0.04945 to two significant figures
19.Express 495g as a percentage of 16.5kg
20.Two sisters, Taiwo and Kehinde, own a store. The ratio of Taiwo's share to
2
Kehinde's is 11:9. Later Kehinde sells 3 of her share to Taiwo for N720.00.
Find the value of the store
21.Divide the L.C.M of 48, 64 and 80 by their H.C.F
22.How many times, correct to the nearest whole number, will a man run round
a circular track of diameter 100m to cover a distance of 1000m?
1 1
23.A school girl spends 4 of her pocket money on books and 3 on dress. What
fraction remains?
24.What is the place value of 9 in the number 3.0492?
1
25.If the simple interest on a sum of money invested at 3% per annum for 2 2
years is N 123, find the principal.
26.A machine valued at N 20,000 depreciates by 10% every year. What will be
the value of the machine at the end of two years?

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27.Evaluate 1− 5 ×1 3 + 5+1 3
2
)
28.If a rod 10cm in length was measured as 10.5cm, calculate the percentage
error
29.A number of pencils were shared out among Bisi, Sola and Tunde in the
ratio of 2:3:5 respectively. If Bisi got 5, how many were shared out?
30.In a town of 6250 inhabitants, there were 62 births during 1984. Find the
percentage birth rate
31.If a car travels 120km on 45 litres of petrol, how much petrol is needed for a
journey of 600km?

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32.Simplify 1− 7 × 3 2 ÷ 4 )
1
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33.Simplify 1 4 ÷ 2 ÷ 4 of 28 )
34.If three staff of Topnotch Educational Consult agreed to share their salary
arrears in the ration of their ages, which are 18 years, 20 years, 22 years
respectively. If the sum of the money collected is N120,000.00K, How much
does the second staff received?
35.A man with an annual salary of N 2000, has allowances of N 600. If Income
Tax is 5%. How much tax does he pay each year?
36.Find at which rate per annum simple interest N 525 will amount to N588 in
3 years.
37.Find the simple interest on N 325 in 5years at 3% per annum.
38.Simplify (0.09)2 and give your answer correct to 4 significant figures
39.A man sells his new brand car for N420,000 at a gain of 15%. What did it
cost him?
40.A man bought a car for N800 and sold it for N520. Find his loss per cent
1 3 1
41.Simplify 6 12 −2 4 +1 2
1
42.Simplify 4 √(390695 T −8) 2
43.If an investor invest N450,000 in a certain organization in order to yield X as
a return of N25,000. Find the return on an investment of N700,000 by Y in
the same organization.
44.If duty is levied at 25%, find the duty to be added to a bill of N 80
45.Simplify 2.04 x 3.7 (Leave your answer in 2 decimal place)
46.A public car dealer marked up the cost of a car at 30% in an attempt to make
20% gross profit. Due to the value of dollar, he now placed 20% discount on
the car. What profit or loss will he make?
47.A woman bought a grinder for N 60,000. She sold it at a loss of 15%. How
much did she sell it?
48.A man donates 10% of his monthly net earnings to his church. If it amounts
to N 4,500, what is his net monthly income?
49.3 girls share a number of apples in the ration 5:3:2. If the highest share is 40
apples, find the smallest share
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50.The sum of 3 8 and 1 3 is less than the difference between 8 and 1 3 by?

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51.Arrange 3 , 9 , 59 in ascending order of magnitude
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52.(3.2)2 - (1.8)2 equals?
53.After getting a rise of 15%, a man's new monthly salary is N 345. How
much per month did he earn before the increase?
54.Write down the number 0.0052048 correct to three significant figures
55.When a dealer sells a bicycle for N81 he makes a profit of 80%. What did he
pay for the bicycle?
56.A man and his wife went to buy an article costing N400. The woman had
10% of the cost and the man 40% of the remainder. How much did they have
altogether?
1 1 1
57.Solve x+1 − x+ 3 = 4
58.At what rate would a sum of N100.00 deposited for 5 years raise an interest
of N7.50?
59.Correct 241.34 ( 3 × 10−3 )2 to 4 significant figures
60.Find the simple interest rate percent annum at which N1000 accumulates to
N1240 in 3 years.

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